AUBURN — Auburn’s coaching staff has “addressed” a recent DUI arrest with a member of its 2018 recruiting class, but further details are unknown.

According to documentation from the Athens-Clarke County jail in Athens, Georgia., Richard Jibunor was booked at 4:38 a.m. EST on New Year’s Eve and released nearly three hours later on $2,000 bond after being charged with DUI and failing to maintain lane and improper driving.

In his signing day news conference Wednesday afternoon, Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn said he and his staff addressed the issue with Jibunor before they sent the paperwork for him to sign.

“We’ve addressed that with him,” Malzahn said. “We don’t expect anything like that to happen again.”

Jibunor, who was primarily recruited by linebackers coach Travis Williams, attended the prospects camp at Auburn this past June and then unofficially visited the campus for the Tigers’ season-opening victory against Georgia Southern on Sept. 2. Jibunor returned to Auburn’s campus for two other home games in the 2017 season. Not shockingly, Jibunor’s visit hosts were his fellow Nigerian native friends Prince Tega Wanogho and Prince Sammons.

“(Wanogho) was the one talking to me about football and he wanted me to try it and everything,” Jibunor said during his official visit. “When he came over there he put a spark on me and encouraged me to play and keep working out every day.”

Jibunor verbally committed on Thanksgiving afternoon. The four-star linebacker prospect was expected to sign during the early period but told Auburn’s coaching staff he wanted to wait until his school was back in session and sign in February.

“When I think of him, I think of speed. I think of speed, I think of upside,” Malzahn said Wednesday. “For his high school team he played offense, he played defense, he played wide receiver — he can do a lot of different things. I think this guy’s got a chance to be a dynamic player. Really expect him to be a very good pass rusher.”

With Auburn losing only Jeff Holland, a “buck” linebacker pass rusher, from its starting defensive front, Jibunor could be possibly redshirted in 2018 season in order to get him better acclimated to defensive coordinator Kevin Steele’s scheme and the practice regime under defensive line coach Rodney Garner.